I Just Want Players to Save Money, They Insist on Giving Me!
Chapter 453 - 157: It’s Quite Nice to Be Able to Contribute to the New Art that Young People Like Nowadays_3

Chapter 453: Chapter 157: It’s Quite Nice to Be Able to Contribute to the New Art that Young People Like Nowadays_3

"After this upgrade, it feels like it’s really stabilized,"

"Tianci sure has a keen eye, even willing to spend heavily to solve our problems, shall consider partnering with them for the long-term."

"This small company is really eager to progress, haha."

A group of people chuckled and chatted, but it gave Ke Jin a massive headache.

Upgrade the secondary server?

You’re messing with my lifeline, damn it!

But on the surface... I seem to have no reason to refuse.

After all, so many employees are here in the meeting room.

Everyone is racking their brains for solutions.

While my subjects are battling bloodily, all I want is for it to be 3 p.m. already.

That definitely won’t fly.

Now I’m really stuck.

Refuse the upgrade? No reason for that.

I can’t exactly say, "Guys, the mastermind behind the mall crash is me. I’m laying it all out here, I don’t want to see players spending money because I’m a time-traveler, I have a system, and Brother Tong Zi told me that as long as players don’t spend money, I can soar. So stop trying to come up with solutions for me, let’s all just slack off."

Obviously, that’s not something I can say.

And if I agree to the upgrade, I’ll be screwing myself over.

Looking at all those eager faces in the meeting room.

Ke Jin’s brain whirled with a rapid storm of thoughts.

Various mathematical symbols, astronomical signs, cultural histories, and the river of time flashed through his mind like a revolving lantern.

Finally!

He thought of a solution.

Queuing... oh, not the birth – queuing method!

"Did Tianci mention the size of the main server they are upgrading to?"

"Mmm... It should be a C-grade main server that can host fifty thousand people at once, which is still a level below the S-grade server we signed up for with money. But after all, this is a free upgrade from them... it’s not good for us to ask for too much," Liu Xuanxuan said hesitantly.

"Okay, thank Mr. Qin for me," Ke Jin said expressionlessly with a nod, "Meeting adjourned."

After speaking, he organized his materials and strode out of the meeting room.

He dove straight into his own office.

The server upgrade needs one whole day, during which Cloud Top will have to shut down for maintenance.

I can use this time to pull off some tricks.

A mere fifty thousand people, tampering with that should be convenient enough.

Although after this upgrade, it won’t be as easy to crash the mall interface as before.

But I can implement some restrictions, write a little plugin for the mall interface, make players queue up to enter the mall!

In my previous life, plenty of major online game companies have done this.

Of course, they didn’t do it as preposterously as queuing in the mall interface itself.

Mainly it was to relieve server pressure during peak hours.

A game might only have twenty or thirty thousand players online during the day, since everyone is at work or school.

But in the evening, the peak can suddenly soar to one hundred thirty thousand.

Yet, server rentals don’t adjust costs according to player active times; most of them are contracted on a quarterly or even annual basis.

Therefore, to save money, the manufacturers came up with the queuing method.

Just rent a server that can handle a hundred thousand.

Enough to manage the day smoothly, and at night, let twenty or thirty thousand players queue up and wait for their turn. As soon as a player in the game logs out, the next one gets in.

It saves money, stabilizes the server, and even pulls off a cyberpunk version of hunger marketing on the side.

I can copy that, too!

Set up a queue right on the mall interface.

Want to spend money? Sure.

The server won’t crash now.

But you’ll need to queue to get in!

And this time, Ke Jin has learned his lesson.

He’s not going to set a fixed number.

Like creating a threshold of 1000, 2000, 5000 people, beyond which players have to queue.

That’s too easy to detect.

Players will catch on after a while.

"Why is there always a line of eight or nine hundred people whenever I click into the mall?" "Can’t you make a bigger server?"

Then Tianci will think, ’I made a server for 50,000, how come there are always a few hundred people queuing up? Mr. Ke, something’s not right.’

So, setting up a queuing plugin is fine.

But it has to be a percentage!

Let’s say, a fixed 10% or thereabouts.

If there are ten thousand players entering the mall right now.

Only 10% can come in; the remaining 9,000 will have to wait in line.

If 20,000 people enter the mall.

The number players see will then change to 18,000.

The queuing numbers players see are dynamically changing, and they’re different each time.

It makes it much harder for anyone to get suspicious.

And in a way, it’s better than a stable crash with just a thousand people.

For instance, with a stable thousand-person crash, in the half-month after Cloud Top’s release, during the wee hours of 3 or 4 a.m. when the fewest people are online.

It likely won’t crash.

Because those who were going to spend have already done so, and the newbies coming in, well, in the middle of the night, you really can’t scrape together that many people.

But with the queuing to spend mechanism,

At 3 a.m., if there’s anyone entering the mall,

Then the remaining nine out of ten have to queue up, no questions asked!

If the one player left in the mall falls asleep, then the rest of you can forget about spending any money!

"I feel like the Nobel Prize really should create a ’Genius Award’ just for me," Ke Jin couldn’t help but immensely praise himself in his heart as he thought of the looming crisis that he had once again easily diffused.

A mere server for fifty thousand people? Ha, it’s nothing to worry about.

Even if you all come in, enduring my 10% anti-spending blow, only leaves you with 5000 people.